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FOOL OR PHYSICIAN
The Memoirs of a Sceptical Doctor
Theodore Dalrymple
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Theodore Dalrymple, 2011
First published in 1987 by John Murray
The right of Theodore Dalrymple to be identified as theAuthor of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright,Designs and Patents Act 1988
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CONTENTS
ABOUTTHE AUTHOR
AUTHOR, doctor, psychiatrist and journalist TheodoreDalrymple was born in London in 1949 to a German mother and Russian father.After qualifying as a doctor in 1974, he chose to travel and take his trade tothe far flung shores of Zimbabwe, Tanzania, South Africa and the Gilbert Islands. When he returned to the United Kingdom he worked in the East End of Londonand then inner city Birmingham in a hospital and the nearby prison. His medicalwork has brought him into contact with drug addicts and alcoholics, careercriminals and sex offenders, the mentally disturbed and battered wives andtheir lives have inspired him to write. He has also appeared as an expertwitness in numerous murder trials.
Dalrymple has written widely and regularly for publicationsas diverse as The Spectator, The New Statesman, The Times, The TimesLiterary Supplement, The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph, The SundayTimes, and The British Medical Journal, as well as many prestigiousAmerican magazines and newspapers.
He also writes under his real name Anthony Daniels. Nowretired from medical work, he is still a prolific writer and divides his timebetween the UK and France.
Praise for Theodore Dalrymple
'The harsh truths he tells are all the more shocking becausethe media, in general, is unwilling to tell them'
Daily Telegraph
Dalrymples clarity of thought, precision of expression andconstant, terrible disappointment give his dispatches from the frontline a toneand a quality entirely their own their rarity makes you sit up and takenotice
The Spectator
'He actually cares about the people at the bottom of thesocial heap while public sector jobsworths and slimy politicians only pretendto'
Daily Express
'He could not be further from the stereotype of the 'littleEnglander' conservative he is arguably our greatest living essayist'
Standpoint
Dalrymples is the crystal voice of reason.
Literary Review
ALSO BY THEODORE DALRYMPLE
IFSYMPTOMS PERSIST
A SERIES of short, often very funny, vignettes aboutDalrymples work as a doctor in an inner-city hospital and a British prison.
Axe-wielding maniacs, 'arthuritis' sufferers and applecrumble-cooking rapists... they're all here, along with avaricious lawyers,empire-building bureaucrats and the poor, huddled masses of the slum near thehospital where Dalrymple works.
The Kindle version also includes stories from his follow upbook If Symptoms Still Persist.
LIFE ATTHE BOTTOM
IN THIS TIMELESS and beautifully-written assortment of essays,looking at crime, culture and the collapse of the British way of life from anunashamedly conservative perspective Dalrymple lays the blame squarely on theshoulders of the liberal intellectuals, who tend 'not to mean quite what they say,and express themselves more to flaunt the magnanimity of their intentions thanto propagate truth.'
SECONDOPINION
IN SECOND OPINION Theodore Dalrymple lays bare asecret, brutal world hidden to most of us.
Drug addicts and desperate drunks, battered wives andsuicidal burglars, elderly Alzheimer's sufferers and teenage stabbing victims.They all pass through his surgery. Its the tragic world of Baby P andShannon Matthews a place where the merest perceived insult leads to murder,where jealous men beat and strangle their women and where anyone will doanything for ten bags of brown.
In unflinchingly honest prose, shot through with insight,feeling and bleak humour, Dalrymple exposes the unseen horror of our modernslums as never before.
OURCULTURE, WHATS LEFT OF IT
A SEARING and elegantly-composed indictment of what he seesas the betrayal of the poor by an intellectual elite, led to Dalrymple beingcalled the new Orwell by American critics. Dalrymple writes about subjects asdiverse as the legalisation of drugs, the death of Princess Diana and Marxism.
NOTWITH A BANG BUT A WHIMPER
A THOUGHT-PROVOKING collection of essays on social,political and literary issues as diverse as violent crime on Britain's streets, the effects of the welfare state, modern architecture and the respective meritsof Shakespeare and Dr. Johnson.
Dalrymple uses examples from his long career as a prisondoctor and his travels to every corner of the globe to illustrate his centralview - that Britain is in the throes of social, cultural and political decline.
PREFACE
TWENTY YEARS AGO, while I was still at school, I went toBattersea Funfair. There was a small booth with the following notice attached:
MADAME GYPSY ROSE LEE
As Patronised by the Gentry and seen on TV
I entered. Across a small round table with a floraltablecloth and a water-filled glass that substituted for a crystal ball sat asomewhat bored-looking lady with large copper earrings and a scarf over herhead to match the tablecloth.
One and or two? she said.
Whats the difference? I asked.
Five bob one and, ten bob two. Or a pound the tea leaves.
I chose one hand.
She took it with a slight curl of her lip as if to say, Ithought as much, and followed a few of my palmar creases with her long crimsonnail.
Youll be educated, she said. Itll take a long time.
I did not demur.
A lawyer... or a doctor perhaps. Yes, a doctor.
I was taken aback.
Youll travel a lot. And youll live to be eighty-four.
My five shillings worth of prophecy was over. I did becomea doctor and I have travelled a lot. Whether I live to be eighty-four remainsto be seen.
ONE
England
AND WHY do you want to be a doctor?
I, a somewhat callow youth of seventeen, faced the men ofthe medical school interview board across the shining table.
It was not an unexpected or an unreasonable question to ask.Indeed, I had rehearsed my answer on the train. I had vowed against replyingwith any clichs about wishing to help humanity, relieve suffering, etc.
I would like to help people, I said.
Have you ever helped people before? asked a rather sternmember of the board.
I did not know what to answer. I wondered whetherrelinquishing my seat on buses for old ladies counted.
You say you want to help people. Have you joined the St Johns Ambulance Brigade? Have you attended first aid courses?
No, I said, shamefacedly.
Why not?
Having scored a small dialectical triumph, the member of theboard wanted to pursue the point.
I havent had time.
Havent had time to help people? You cant want to helpthem very much.
He was right, of course. I didnt wish humanity any harm,but on the other hand I wasnt excessively anxious about its welfare either.
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